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and yellows of its sisters in a stand of Teas. Perhaps 

 it ought to be more cultivated, but most fanciers of Tea 

 Roses seem half ashamed of it, as if it had no business 

 to be dark red, and it is not in general highly esteemed. 

 Note, there is a Therese Levet, a pink H.P. of ordinary 

 quality. 



Souvenir cVun Ami (Defougere, 184G). — A grand old 

 Tea Rose, of strong, healthy, vigorous growth with extra 

 fine foliage. This is one of the hardiest of the show 

 Teas, doing well on light soil, and fairly as a dwarf but 

 much better as a standard : a free bloomer and a 

 capital autumnal, and the blooms generally come well, 

 of fine shape, substance, and petal, the largest size and 

 good lasting qualities. The principal fault is that the 

 flower soon loses colour and is apt to look dirty, but it 

 is deservedly a general favourite for all purposes. 



Souvenir clc S. A. Prince (Prince, 1889), syn : The 

 Queen. — This is a pure white sport from the last-named, 

 and very valuable as giving us a really white Rose 

 of good pointed form. In habit and general manners 

 it is the same, but I cannot get the blooms to come as 

 large as those of the type. 



Sunset (Henderson, 1883). — A sport from Perle des 

 Jardins, of the same colour as Reve d'Or : a handsome, 

 useful, strong-growing Rose, with foliage of a beautiful 

 red colour in the spring. It comes a little better shaped 

 than its progenitor, and is a very good autumnal, but 

 the blooms are always small compared with the size 

 and stoutness of the shoots, and the plant is tender to 

 frost. 



Triomjphe cle Benncs (Lansezeur, 1837). — This old 

 Noisette is a fair grower but not strong enough for 

 anything but a low wall. The wood and habit are 

 very characteristic, and it is tender and easily killed 



